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Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
by David Quammen
Measuring the merits of this book is impossible.
First of all, the quality of the writing is such as to make the subject matter - in itself difficult - extremely pleasant, interesting, in some places more entertaining than any novel. In scientific divulgation, Asimov teaches, the quality of writing is essential if you want to get any kind of message across.
Then there's the adventurous part: the travel diary, alive and vivid, of a person who chased in the field - and in terms of field here we talk about the forests of Africa as well as the Australian bush, as well as the Chinese markets - the stories he tells.
Last but not least, the inclusion of the author in that enormous network of specialists in many scientific disciplines who hunt down those viruses that do something that for us humans is equivalent to the injured majesty, that is, to go from animal to man, forgetting that we are animals ourselves.
Back in vogue because of the recent coronavirus pandemic, it really is an indispensable book for the ordinary citizen to understand what happened, why it happened and the necessary steps to return to a sort of normality.
First of all, the quality of the writing is such as to make the subject matter - in itself difficult - extremely pleasant, interesting, in some places more entertaining than any novel. In scientific divulgation, Asimov teaches, the quality of writing is essential if you want to get any kind of message across.
Then there's the adventurous part: the travel diary, alive and vivid, of a person who chased in the field - and in terms of field here we talk about the forests of Africa as well as the Australian bush, as well as the Chinese markets - the stories he tells.
Last but not least, the inclusion of the author in that enormous network of specialists in many scientific disciplines who hunt down those viruses that do something that for us humans is equivalent to the injured majesty, that is, to go from animal to man, forgetting that we are animals ourselves.
Back in vogue because of the recent coronavirus pandemic, it really is an indispensable book for the ordinary citizen to understand what happened, why it happened and the necessary steps to return to a sort of normality.